I've Always Wanted to Build Stuff. Now I Actually Am.
I’ve had a running list of ideas for years. Geocities site as a kid, more WordPress installs than I care to count, even a stint as webmaster for ozarksbeekeepers.org. I clearly wasn’t afraid of the web. I just never actually built anything that was mine.
But I am genuinely, deeply lazy.
Not full self-deprecation — laziness has a useful side. It drives me to automate, simplify, find the path of least resistance and make that path actually work. Most of my career has been that instinct in action. Backend tools, scripts, things running on cron jobs that nobody ever looked at. Efficient, invisible, done.
The shadow side of laziness is that if there’s no easy path, I don’t start. Writing a full stack application from scratch was never the easy path. So I didn’t. The list of ideas just kept growing.